Dear all,
The Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop is pleased to announce its 2013 fall quarter schedule. We meet on Fridays at 4:00 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224), unless otherwise noted, with a wine and cheese reception following the workshop. We hope you’ll join us for the following workshops:
– Friday, October 4, 4:00 pm SSRB 224 : Carolyn Sargent, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Transnational co-production of meanings and strategies about breast cancer among Senegal River Valley immigrants in France”
*Co-sponsored with the Self and Subjectivity Workshop
*There is no pre-circulated paper for this session
– Friday, November 1, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Nicolas Valazza, Indiana University Bloomington, “Le livre en question, du Parnasse au symbolisme”
– Friday, November 15, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Liam Mannix, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago, “Following the Money in a Traditional Economy: Interpreting the Cash-flow of the Chapter of Notre Dame de Paris, 1759-1785”
– Monday, November 25, 5:00 pm, Pick 319 : Laurie Wood, University of Wisconsin, Madison Law School, “Spaces of Exile in France’s Early Modern Empire”
*Co-sponsored with the Early Modern Workshop
– Tuesday, November 26, 4:30 pm, (Room TBA) : Marin Sarvé-Tarr, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago, “The War of Self and Cinema in Yves Klein’s La Guerre (1954)”
*Respondent: Dan Wang, PhD candidate, Department of Music, University of Chicago
*Co-sponsored with the Art History Working Group
– Friday, December 13, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin, “Accounting for commerce, culture, and capitalism in early modern France”
Papers will be pre-circulated via the workshop list-serv. If you have any questions, please contact one of the coordinators: Rebecca Crisafulli (crisafulli@uchicago.edu) and Agatha Kim (agatha@uchicago.edu). We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.